Senior Project Manager London, England
Job description
Senior Project Manager
Working in a highly complex, fast-paced environment, the Senior Project Manager is responsible for creating and leading an integrated team to deliver end-to-end projects ensuring they have a valid business benefit, deliver on time, within budget and to agreed quality criteria from conception through to market launch and transition into operations. You will manage a virtual team of up to 100 people, including several 3rd party Suppliers, providing strong leadership across many Projects, depending on size and complexity. You will work closely with stakeholders across the Organisation to shape the Projects and proactively solve conflict through problem-solving, negotiation, open communication, and direct influencing.
The main project is to work on the withdrawal of PSTN by 2025. Given the new development, all customers would be migrated to IP Services. You can participate in this drive while benefitting from career progression and hands-on experience that could then be used in other Projects under the Legacy Products Transformation Programme. This role offers an opportunity for a hybrid working (3 days together in any of our London W1T 4JZ, Birmingham-B4 6GA, or Bristol BS2 0JJ office, 2 days wherever you like).
- Leading – Coordinating virtual teams (<100), working with external partners and suppliers to deliver against business objectives.
- Influencing - Using business and domain expertise to affect project outcomes.
- Planning – E2E planning of projects, including resources, negotiating, and securing resources as required.
- Negotiating - Interlocking projects with dependencies and dependant projects, securing prioritisation and alignment as required.
- Driving – E2E ownership of projects ensuring delivery to time, budget and quality as expected.
- Governing – responsible for project governance, budget management (<£5m), risk, issue, and change management for the entire project.
- Reporting – Provides reports to time and standard as PMO directs, socialising within key stakeholder groups.
- Collaborating – working across all design and delivery partners to produce coherent project outcomes.
- Communicating – working across the stakeholder group and up to the Director level, visibly owning delivery, change and engagement for the project.
- Professional experience delivering medium to large projects (<£5m) within an appropriate governance process (Gated waterfall, Agile, Hybrid).
- Good knowledge of and experience with Telecoms products and services.
- Excellent planning, organisational and negotiation skills.
- Ability to lead communication with stakeholders and work to drive robust, open, and sustained communication channels.
- Leadership skills- Ability to provide effective leadership to the project team and take appropriate action.
- Excellent Stakeholder management skills up to the Director level.
- Ability to identify and manage risk effectively.
- An understanding of the Agile transformation methodology
- Budgeting Skills - able to proactively forecast and manage the project costs to forecasts, both Opex and Capex.
- Good collaborator
- Industry recognised Project Management Qualification.
- Competitive salary
- 10% on target bonus
- BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
- 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
- Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan
- World-class training and development opportunities
- Discounted broadband, and mobile packages
- Access to 100’s of retail discounts including the BT shop
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet. Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding. We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’ We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development. This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses.
